[Gayle]

Originally Posted by Busman747

As Gayle may possibly be aware of, I am against the use of finances dished out by quango's in a way that takes their fancy - HOWEVER! I feel that we are short of information here and if Gayle knows the answers?

1) If a grant is received, will it pay in part for someones wages?

It will pay for some freelance workers to deliver workshops in schools, do the research, write the education packs and will pay local businesses who will do the printing and web design. All the money will come into the local economy as HWF is non profit making and made up of all volunteers (although having said that, if any of them actually 'deliver' any of the work they will be paid the fair rate for it). I personally get paid £200 per month for working for the forum but that's already covered by funding that we got from the Big Lottery ages ago for that purpose. If I was to deliver any workshops then I'd get paid the going workshop rate as would anybody else who was doing the work.

Originally Posted by Busman747

2) What figure are we talking about, £hundreds or £thousands?

The total that we are applying for is in the region of £25k - that will all go into the local economy as described above.

Originally Posted by Busman747

3) Who ARE The Hyndburn Womens Forum? (Another of my pet hates is predudice against men like "Womens Institute," "Shelter for Battered Wives" (I witnessed the wounds today of a man that was hit repeatedly by his "partner" who also trashed their car and refused to report it, the idiot is returning to the house tonight because she phoned to say "sorry!" ) and all the other quango financed institutions that are aimed at women only.

Hyndburn Women's Forum was formed about 12 years ago. Their aim at that time was to put on an event to celebrate International Women's Day on 8th March each year. Now, it just happens to be the name of the group of women who get together to organise various community events - last year we did the VE/VJ event at the Town Hall which wasn't a specifically women's orientated event. If we raise any money through raffles and stuff it tends to be donated to the Women's Centre but that's not what we're about. Basically, you need to be a group formed by constitution to go for any of this sort of funding so we sort of use it for those means. Our basic aim, I guess you could say, is celebrating women - that's why the main focus of this project would be to look at the women who held it all together back home whilst the men went off to war.

Originally Posted by busman747

4) How will information be attained? - - - and

Not sure what your question is but we'll be looking at interviewing descendents of the Pals and people who have stories to tell about them. We'll be using some of the regular resources i.e. library and internet as well but as our focus is on the women they won't tell us everything that we'll need to know.

Originally Posted by busman747

5) Lastly, will the information received become public knowledge - in a book? local press? internet?

Part of the funding is to produce an education pack which will be held at local libraries and issued to schools. It's also hoped that it will be transfered on to a website aimed at the education angle.

Originally Posted by busman747

If the answers to these questions are favourable, then you have my full support Gayle

Hope that helps.